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New Haveners participated in a “Global Climate Strike Day” with a rally on the Green and outside City Hall.
A crowd of 120 participated at the event, where Mayor Justin Elicker (pictured above) spoke and was handed a stack of postcards urging him to take action on climate change.
The youth-led rally had two parts: “mourning the unprecedented damage caused by the climate crisis thus far, including forest fires, flooding, arctic collapse”; and a “die-in” outside City Hall.
The die-in featured 29 drum beats, representing “29 years since the United Nations Earth Summit in 1992.”
The New Haven Climate Movement, which organized the event, is calling on the city to transition from fossil fuels and rely 100 percent on renewable energy.